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Boss :: Boss (n.) Any protuberant part; a round, swelling part or body; a knoblike process; as, a boss of wood..

Size :: Size (v. t.) To swell; to increase the bulk of.

Heave :: Heave (v. i.) To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle..

Strout :: Strout (v. i.) To swell; to puff out; to project.

Rise :: Rise (v.) To become larger; to swell; -- said of a boil, tumor, and the like..

Blub :: Blub (v. t. & i.) To swell; to puff out, as with weeping..

Cynanche :: Cynanche (n.) Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing..

Inflate :: Inflate (v. t.) Fig.: To swell; to puff up; to elate; as, to inflate one with pride or vanity..

Inturgescence :: Inturgescence (n.) A swelling; the act of swelling, or state of being swelled..

Bowge :: Bowge (v. i.) To swell out. See Bouge.

Chase :: Chase (n.) The part of a cannon from the reenforce or the trunnions to the swell of the muzzle. See Cannon.

Bulb :: Bulb (v. i.) To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.

Varicosity :: Varicosity (n.) An enlargement or swelling in a vessel, fiber, or the like; a varix; as, the varicosities of nerve fibers..

Strany :: Strangury (n.) A swelling or other disease in a plant, occasioned by a ligature fastened tightly about it..

Swelldom :: Swell (a.) Having the characteristics of a person of rank and importance; showy; dandified; distinguished; as, a swell person; a swell neighborhood..

Tumefaction :: Tumefaction (n.) The act or process of tumefying, swelling, or rising into a tumor; a swelling..

Bulk :: Bulk (v. i.) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to swell..

Crest :: Crest (n.) A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc..

Heaving :: Heaving (n.) A lifting or rising; a swell; a panting or deep sighing.

Upswell :: Upswell (v. i.) To swell or rise up.

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